Use of Videos


You can use videos in a number of ways in your lab courses:

  1. As a humorous way to introduce lab safety or a lab topic.
  2. Demonstrations can introduce students to lab techniques they have not done themselves, so that they can perform the technique in their own research.
  3. Exposure to lots of lab methods, may help students come up with creative research project ideas.

This page is a place for you to share favorite lab videos from You Tube or Teacher Tube. See Wiki Tips for info on how embed videos.

Humor & Inspriation



This TED video of Sir Ken Robinson talks about how schools kill creativity. This is something to consider as we explore inquiring in our science classrooms. If you've never seen, it, prepare yourself, it really makes you think.




Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria communicate.





Lab Demos for students




The video below is one that could be used for students who wanted to learn chromatography to do a project.